Day One 2025 agenda
- Ross Morrison - Partner, Adams Street Partners
Is the market entering an upturn in 2025? How are seasoned VCs applying past lessons to the current investment environment? Has the AI bubble burst with the addition of DeepSeek? Will we see more institutional capital enter the asset class as the exit space continues to show promise?
- Aaron Filbeck, CAIA, CFA, CIPM, FDP - Managing Director, Global Content Strategy, CAIA Association
- Mel Williams - Co-founder and General Partner, TrueBridge Capital
How much more can we expect from European growth investing? Is competition with US firms providing the right stimulus for European GPs?
- Asaf Horesh - Co-Managing Partner, Vintage Investment Partners
- Karen McCormick - Chief Investment Officer, Beringea
- Frederic Court - Founder & Managing Partner, Felix Capital
How strong is early stage VC today? How do pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages vary within different sectors and geographies?
- Mrinalini Lhila - Founder & Managing Principal, 360 Capital Advisors
- Adam Niewiński - Co-Founder & General Partner, OTB Ventures
- Jessica Weiss - Investment Director, Hamilton Lane
Discussion group run under the Chatham House Rule and closed to press. For VC pre-registration email micah.passman@informa.com. For LP pre-registration email nisa.pun@informa.com.
- Elodie Broad - Head of ESG, Balderton Capital
- Meghan Stevenson Krausz - Co-CEO, Diversity VC
Run under the Chatham House Rule. Open to 30 attendees and closed to press. For LP pre-registration email nisa.pun@informa.com. For VC pre-registration email micah.passman@informa.com
- Julius Bachmann - Executive Coach, Bachmann Coaching
- SC Moatti - Managing Partner, Mighty Capital
Has Europe taken advantage of its best-in-class talent? Have recent geopolitical events changed Europe in any way? Is there enough ambition for Europe to truly compete in the AI race?
- Miruna-Ioana Girtu - Principal, Heritage Holdings
- Anne Germain - Senior Investment Director, BPI France
- Jörg Goschin - Co-CEO and Senior Managing Director, KfW Capital
- Gregor von dem Knesebeck - Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners
Are institutions unlocking more capital for venture? What can be done to increase allocations into venture from pension funds?
- Kinga Stanislawska - Founder, European Women in VC
- Ian Connatty - Deputy Chief Investment Officer, British Patient Capital
LP-only discussion group run under the Chatham House Rule and open to 30 pre-registered development finance institutions, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. Places are limited; to enquire please email nisa.pun@informa.com.
- Alena Schollmayer - Investor, Allianz
- Peter Dunbar - Principal, Responsible Investing, StepStone Group
- Theresa Bardubitzki - Sustainability Manager, KfW Capital
How does the entry of North America's most established firms affect Europe? What do North American LPs want to see from the region? Will we see greater alignment between the two regions?
- Reem Mobassaleh Wyndham - Founding Partner, Pact VC
- Jonathan Heiliger - Founder & General Partner, Vertex Ventures US
- David York - Founder, Managing Director, Top Tier Capital Partners
- Stephen George - Founder, InterAlpen Partners
Have secondaries proven themselves to be a new form of exit for small-cap companies? What can we expect from secondaries as the exit markets open?
- Olaf Neubert - Managing Director, TopCap Partners
- Leyla Holterud - Managing Director, StepStone Group
- Dror Glass - Founder & Managing Partner, Israel Secondary Fund
- Omolade Adebisi - Principal, Isomer Capital
How have founder organisations developed over the years to better service the asset class? Should LPs and founders have more engagement in the ecosystem?
- Sutian Dong - Partner, Multitudes